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8 Staunton, Leader, Tuesday, August 14, 1973 Oilers start over tor 73 Major leagues Vijay Amritraj downs Mayer By the associated 6-3, 6-1; Parun beat Ferdie Taygan, Framingham, 6-3, 6-2, and McKinley put out Sid Ball of Australia 6-1, 6-2. HOUSTON (AP) When last year's crop of Houston Oilers produced only one victory, management decided to plow everything under and start over. Sid Gillman was hired on as foreman of owner Bud Adams' spread and wasted no time culling what he considered chaff from wheat Gilman made 19 player trades before the Oilers reported for pre-season work at Kerrville's Schreiner Institute. Gillman's plan is to head off a repeat of last year's 1-13 record, the worst in the National Football League, and return the Oilers to their glory days of the early 1960s. Houston's record earned the No.

1 selection in the pro football draft, and the Oilers may have received the best price per pound for their choice of any team in many seasons. Although the Oilers' offensive line was a disaster area in 1972, Coach Bill Peterson grabbed Tampa defensive tackle John Matuszak, 6-feet-7 and 290 pounds. Although a defensive end in college, Matuszak is expected to fit into the Oiler plan as a starting defensive tackle beside Greg Sampson, last year's No. 1 selection. Former Dallas Cowboy Tody Smith and veteran Elvin Bethea will man the ends.

Houston's biggest defensive weakness could be its line-backing corps, depleted last season when Peterson traded away George Webster and Ron Pritchard. A pleasant surprise at middle linebacker in Houston's 16-13 exhibition loss to the New York Jets was rookie Greg Bingham. Third-year veteran Floyd Rice and Phil Croyle fill out the line-backing corps. Willie Alexander and Benny Johnson are the cornerbacks since hard-hitting Zeke Moore moved from the corner to a safety position with Bob Atkins. The Oilers have three top quarterback prospects in Dan Pastorini, Edd Hargett and Lynn Dickey.

The biggest Oiler weakness last season however, was keeping them healthy with one of the most porous offensive lines in the league. Gillman's big move there was to snatch all-pro center Bill Curry, along with his three championship rings, from the Baltimore Colts to lend leadership and stability to the line. Comebacks by last year's casualties, including right tackle Elbert Drungo and guard Richard Cheek, also could help. The arrival of Paul Robinson and Fred Willis from Cincinnati aided the Oilers' running back corps, but it barely got above the anemic stage last season. Peterson hopes added strength in the offensive line and help from running back George Amundson, a No.

1 draft choice; Willie Rodgers; Al Johnson and Lewis Jolley will give the Oilers a running attack with more teeth this season. Gillman, who dealt away many of the Oilers' draft choices to get the players he wanted, said he wasn't finished. "I will trade away our draft choices for next year and then I'll start on 1975 just give them all away," Gillman said. "I'll do whatever it takes to start winning right now." American League East W. L.

Pet. G.B. 66 52 .559 Detroit Baltimore New York Boston Milwaukee Cleveland .548 IV .537 2V, .530 3', .491 8 .398 19 .571 .568 Vi .487 10 .483 .461 13 24' West Kansas City 68 51 Oakland 67 51 Chicago 58 61 Minnesota 56 60 California 53 62 Texas 42 74 Monday's Gaines New York 6, California 0 Oakland 3. Boston 1 Chicago 5, Milwaukee 2 Baltimore 7, Texas 4 Detroit 9, Minnesota 3 Only games scheduled Tuesday's Games California (Wright 8 16) at New York (Dobson 64), Oakland (Pina 5 3) at Boston (Lee 12 7. Cleveland (Perry 12 15) at Kansas City (Busby 1011), Chicago (Stone 4 11) at Milwaukee (Lockwood 5 6), Baltimore (Alexander 6 6) at Texas (Siebert 6 9), Detroit (Coleman 18 9) at Minnesota (Woodson 10 7), Wednesday's Games Baltimore at Texas Cleveland at Kansas City Detroit at Minnesota Chicago at Milwaukee California at New York Oakland at Boston Green makes Classic cut WESTFIELD CENTER, Ohio Braxton Green Jr.

of Staunton shot a total of 150 over the weekend to make the cut after 36 holes of the Insurance Youth Classic Sunday. Green and 58 others qualifers played the final 36 holes with touring pros Monday and today. Green's partner for today was Charles Coody. An award was presented to Edward Malehorn of. Yorkhaven, who won the first two rounds with a birdie on the first hole of a three-player sudden playoff.

Malehorn finished with a 143. Green played with Ron Funseth Monday. HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP)-Vijay Amritraj of India, the second seeded contender has defeated Gene Mayer of Wayne, N.J., 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championship at Merion Cricket Club on Monday. Sixth seeded Ross Case of Australia lost to Fred McNair HI of Bethesda, 7-6, 6-3.

Eighth seeded John Lloyd of England bowed to Steve Kru-levitz of Baltimore, 6-1, 7-5. Victorious seeded players were Colin Dibley and Allan Stone, both of Australia, Onny Parun, New Zealand, and Bob McKinley of St. Ann, Mo. Dibley scored 6-3, 6-2 over Jack Gorsuch, Bridgeton, Stone won from Nick Saviano, Los Altos Hill, The Chiefs didn't get around to scoring until the fifth inning of the first game and waited until the sixth in the second contest. But the Tides' only run was in the final at-bat in the twin bill.

Barry Foote came to the plate with two out in the bottom of the ninth at Peninsula to spoil Ken Tatum's shutout bid. But the Pawtucket hurler came back from the quirk homer to close out the inning and the game. National League Sfargell Wings stun Toledo fwce cools hoi Reds PRESS National League East W. L. Pet.

G.B. 61 58 .513 57 58 .496 2 57 60 .487 3 56 61 .479 4 St. Louis Pittsburgh Montreal Chicago Philadelphia 54 63 .462 6 New York West Los Angeles Cincinnati San Francisco Houston Atlanta San Diego 52 64 .448 7'j 74 45 72 48 64 52 63 58 56 65 .622 .600 2 .552 8 .521 12 .463 19 .356 3 IV 42 76 Games Cincinnati Louis 0 New York Monday's Pittsburgh 3, Houston 4, St. San Diego 3, Los Angeles 8, Montreal Only games scheduled Tuesday's Games Atlanta (Morton 9 9) at Chicago (Jenkins 10 11) Cincinnati (Grimsley 12 6) at Pittsburgh (Rooker 5 4) Houston (Richard 4 1) at St. Louis (Foster 96) New York (Koosman 813) at San Diego (Jones 2 3) Montreal (Moore 611) at Los Angeles (John 117) Philadelphia (Lonborg 9 9) at San Francisco (Barr 9 11) Wednesday's Games Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Atlanta at Chicago Houston at St.

Louis Montreal at Los Angeles New York at San Diego Philadelphia at San Francisco the first seven runs for the loss, but reliever Barry Moore gave up nine runs in the last two innings. Lefthander Joe Grazenda came on twice in the magic seventh to save the Syracuse victories. In the first he relieved Jim Magnuson and in the nightcap it was Ken Crosby's turn to rest. International League By The Associated Press American W. L.

Rochester 70 54 Pawtucket 62 60 Syracuse 61 59 Toledo 53 68 National Charleston 71 52 Tidewater 63 54 Peninsula 59 61 Richmond 45 76 Monday's Results Pawtucket 4, Peninsula 1 Richmond 16, Charleston 2 Syracuse 3 2, Tidewater 01 Rochester 1-1, Toledo 0 0 Tuesday's Games Pawtucket at Peninsula Richmond at Charleston Rochester at Toledo Syracuse at Tidewater Wednesday's Games Pawtucket at Tidewater Peninsula at Richmond Syracuse at Charleston Toledo at Rochester Pet. GB .565 .508 7 .508 7 .438 15Vj .577 .538 5 .492 10j .372 25 Bi-Pod Gun Rest $550 Sound Ban Sonic Ear Valves Gun Cases, Cleaning Kits Shells CABLE'S INC. 128 Weit Itvtrley Strttt Staunton, Virginia By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Willie Stargell doesn't plan to watch any television in the early days of October and Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky Anderson doesn't expect him to. It's not that the Pittsburgh Pirates' slugger has anything against TV. It's just that Stargell doesn't like the thought of watching other little men in knickers, shirts and caps playing on his screen for big money.

"Last year we had the best record in baseball and ended up watching the World Series at home," Stargell said after smacking his 34th homer and scoring another run in the Pirates nationally televised 3-2 squeaker over the Reds. "This year our record isn't so good, but maybe we'll be there." Anderson is more certain. "The Pirates will be there when it's all over," he said. For the record, the Pirates have not been playing as if they wanted to extend their season beyond the regular schedule. But neither has the rest of the division, which is in jeopardy of having no teams with records on the happy side of .500.

St. Louis is the only club in the National League East with its head above water-61-58- but is sinking fast. The Cardinals' eighth straight loss left the Pirates and their 57-58 record just two games back. Monday night's victory was a step in that direction as they cooled off a hot Cincinnati club that had won five straight. Elsewhere in the National League, the Houston Astros shut out the St.

Louis Cardinals 4-0; the San Diego Padres nipped the New York Mets 3-2 and the Los Angeles Dodgers stopped the Montreal Expos 8-5. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was feast or fame in the International League Monday night two runs in 18 innings at Toledo and 18 runs in nine innings at Charleston. Rochester hurler Herb Hutson tossed a three-hitter, then teammate Mark Weems gave up one hit as the Red Wings clobbered Toledo twice 1-0 and 1-0. The Richmond Braves used 16 hits, three of them homers, to beat Charleston 16-2. In other league games, Syracuse took two from Tidewater 3-0 and 2-1, and Pawtucket topped Peninsula 4-1.

The only Toledo hit off Weems, normally a reliefer, was a bunt single. Hutson's three-hitter in the opener was matched by Toledo's Bob Strampe. In both games, Rochester's winning run was unearned. John Fuller clubbed two home runs and Wayne Nor-dhagen struck another in the Richmond victory. Charleston pitcher Tom Dettore gave up HEED MONEY? Weaver feels hitting will decide East race -Bring Us Your Guns-- RESC0 ARMS COMPANY 107 Wttl Johnson St.

Aeron From Parking Lot ram raiin By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS While the rest of the world puzzles over the tantalizingly tight American League East Division race, Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver has the dilemma all doped out "We've got the best defensive club in the division and the best pitching," reasoned Weaver after the Orioles had thumped Texas 7-4 Monday night. "Now we're starting to hit, and the club with the hot bat will take it" That bit of information should delight Detroit skipper ft Woodson oses 52 wins SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) What Warren Woodson wins on the football field, record-keepers for the NCAA take away with a pencil. Woodson, head football coach and athletic director at small Trinity University here, is no longer the "winningest active coach" in college football, as the school's past sports brochures have been able to claim. The National Collegiate Sports Service, which keeps records for the NCAA, has told Woodson 52 victories of his career will not be counted in his lifetime college total because they were gained at a junior college.

Including the games won at Texarkana, Junior College during the 1927-34 seasons, Woodson's lifetime record stands at 247 victories. Minus the Texarkana wins, he has 195 lifetime victories. The new titleholder for winningest active college coach apparently is Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama with 220 victories, says a Trinity publicist. Woodson says, "I realize the NCAA is basically a big university organization and they must cater to the big universities' desires. "But are they going to throw out the football games won by Glenn "Pop" Warner while he was coaching at Carlisle Institute? Carlisle was a high school for Indians and they had no rules to govern athletic competition." SPORTS FANS! Brought To You By JIM WILT Here's a little known fact about Sandy Koulax.

you know what kind of start Sandy had when he first came to the big fans don't remember it today, but Sandy actually lost more games than he won during his early years in the majors. joined the Dodgers in 19SS and between then and the end of the 1960 season, he had won a total of 31 games but he had lost a total of 40 knew at that time that Sandy Koufax would go on to become one of the greatest pitchers of all-time. Who was the youngest man ever to manage a big league baseball answer is Roger Peckinpaugh, who was only 23 when he was picked as manager of the Yankees in 1914. Boudreau is the second youngest manager in major league history. was only 24 when he was named pilot of the Indians in 1942.

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Goodrich you can buy a 18 Cu. Ft. Hotpoint No-Frost Refrigerator for only $339.00. BET tas I YOU I Know LwiiJ Jones predicts good club for Richmond Spiders Don Baylor to whip the Rangers. Baylor had four hits and figures the Orioles can hit better than the rest of the division thinks they can hit.

"I hope the other teams keep thinking we can't hit the ball," said Baylor. "I guarantee you we're hitting it now." All the first place Tigers can do is win. Detroit ran its post All Star Game record to 17-4 by beating Minnesota to maintain its l-game lead over the Orioles. post held King. 15 years by Bob Baker admitted to having a depth problem but added that "we feel we do have some pretty good people at the skill positions." Appalachian is entering only its second year of eligibility in football and has only four league opponents scheduled, meaning the Mountaineers will have to count one outside game as last year.

On that occasion, South Carolina was designated as a league opponent and Brakefield said he'd vehemently oppose having his game with the Gamecocks counted this season. "We think that in another year we'll be competitive with anybody in the league," said Brakefield. Fagg, faced with high academic requirements and a low number of scholarships at Davidson, said "we want to win football games so bad that I can't stand it but what I really want for Davidson is to stand up with pride and dignity." VMI won two games last season for the first time in five years and Thalman said "the key to our whole program is that we've got to be an improved football team." Thalman didn't know it, but he was being talked about, too. "There's a real sleeper in this league this year," said Jones. He wrote down the letters on a piece of Billy Martin, whose Tigers mauled Minnesota for 16 hits and a 9-3 romp.

If hot bats decide this race, then wrap it up for the Tigers, who've won four straight games and scored 26 runs over that stretch. Elsewhere in the American League Monday night, Oakland trimmed Boston 3-1, New York shut out California 6-0 and Chicago downed Milwaukee 5-2. The other teams were not scheduled. The Orioles got homers from Merv Rettenmund and about me," Jones said Monday as the league's eight coaches were submitting to questions by newsmen at the conference's annual "rouser" to appraise the outlook for the forthcoming season. If you think Jones was upset at what he overheard as newsmen talked with other coaches nearby, you're wrong.

"I want them talking about us," said Jones with a grin. "It means we must be doing something right I'd much rather have them saying things about us as a team to beat than not saying anything." Jones smiled again. "We're going to have a good football team," he said. "Every year they say, 'look out for Richmond' I don't mind. I hope we can win it." The preseason line indicates the Spiders will be ranked right among the top three in the conference with defending champion East Carolina and William Mary.

Jones and the coaches of the other two challengers, Sonny Randle of East Carolina and Jim Root of William Mary, were due to outline this year's prospects today along with one of the two new coaches in the league, Bobby Ross of The Citadel. Newsmen heard talks Monday by the other new coach, Art Baker of Furman, as well as by Jim Brakefield of Appalachian State, BobThalman of Virginia Military and Dave Fagg of Davidson. "I think I took, the job because they told me I couldn't win," said Baker, who spent seven years as an assistant at Clemson and Texas Tech before inheriting the Furman Size Reg. Price Sale Price FET BgOJJ J3.28 MlL. 2JS F60-14 39.91 3233 -JJ3 G60-14 42.13 3.18 J60-14 45.79 3.56 GiOJJL 42135 MA3 48J5 357 L60J5 flJJ3B 3.92 ASHEVILLE, N.C.

(AP)-Frank Jones of Richmond is starting his eighth season as dean of Southern Conference football coaches, so he shouldn't be surprised when people talk about him. In his seven seasons, the Spiders have broken even in 72 games over-all. But they've won the league championship outright twice, shared it once and finished second on another occasion. Jones is highly respected around the conference and he's also something of an eavesdropper. "Listen to them talking Obaugh, Ozzie Porter take Softball wins Obaugh Ford took a 16-13 win over Smiths Monday in the City Softball League playoffs.

Ozzie Porter won 20-11 over Vepco in the second game. Tonight, Wards will meet Daniel Auto Mart at 7:30 and Harner Wheels will take on the Staunton Moose at 8:30 in a second game. Fort grid practice set for Thursday FORT DEFIANCE -Coach Jim Sheldrake announced today that the Fort Defiance High jayvee, eighth and ninth grade football players will hold their first practice Thursday night at 6 o'clock at the school. All players should be at the school at 5:30 for a brief meeting before practice Sheldrake also points out. All Wide Wheels 8" In Stock Chrome, Reverse And Mag 2 Fiberglass Plies Plus 2 Bias Polyester Plies -Tubeless All Prices With Recapable Tire Traded in line Si mvtce BankAmericarel MMm I Of Staunton.

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